Pavlos Symeou
Professor
Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Business
pavlos.symeou@cut.ac.cy
25002185
https://www.linkedin.com/in/symeou
Dr. Pavlos C. Symeou is a Professor of Strategy at the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a PhD in Management from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on corporate strategy, global strategy, and corporate responsibility. He has published in leading international business and management journals, including Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of International Business Studies.
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Research Interests & Activities
His scholarly work centers on three interrelated lines of research: global strategy, competitive strategy, and corporate social and environmental performance. In all three, he draws on real market environments to test existing theories, propose theoretical extensions, or identify practical managerial issues that can be situated for empirical examination. He collaborates with accomplished foreign researchers and field experts to produce research that is genuinely interesting, timely, and relevant to a broad audience of academics and practitioners.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- ORGANIKO (LIFE14 CCM/CY/000990 ORGANIKO LIFE+): acted as a lead researcher in a LIFE-co-funded project (€950,000) with a duration of 4 years (2015-2019), coordinated by Cyprus University of Technology’s Institute for Public Health. The project examined the comparative advantages of organic versus conventional farming, products, and markets.
- GLOBAL VALUE (EC FP7 project no. 613295): Acted as a consultant for a platform of experts that advise the largest to date European Commission-funded project dealing with the impacts of multinational companies (MNCs) on global development. The 3-year project was coordinated by the Institute for Managing Sustainability of Vienna University of Economics and Business (2014-2017).
CONFERENCE PAPERS
85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025).
- Symeou, P.C. and Kassinis, G.I. “Multimarket Contact and the Environmental Sustainability Actions of Multinational Enterprises”.
- Symeou, P.C. and Santangelo, G. “MNEs’ environmental technology transfer in the face of natural disasters”.
Strategic Management Society’s special conference, Palermo, Italy (2025).
- Symeou, P.C. and Kassinis, G.I. “Multimarket Contact and the Environmental Sustainability Actions of Multinational Enterprises”.
19th Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, University of Cambridge, UK (2023).
- Symeou, P.C. and Kassinis, G.I. “Corporate Social Performance, Legitimacy, and the Choice of Foreign Partners by State-controlled Entities in the Global Extractive Industries”.
Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business, Warsaw, Poland (2023).
- Symeou, P.C. and Kassinis, G.I. “Corporate Social Performance, Legitimacy, and the Choice of Foreign Partners by State-controlled Entities in the Global Extractive Industries”.
41st Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society, Toronto, Canada (2021).
- Symeou, P.C. and Kassinis, G. “Partnering with MNEs in the extractives industries: How the corporate social performance of MNEs affects the legitimacy of the host state partner,” Nominated for Best Conference Paper Prize and Best Research Methods Conference Paper Prize.
Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business, Miami, USA (2021).
- Symeou, P.C. and Santangelo, G. “State Ownership and Foreign Entry Strategy: The Joint Role of Home and Host-Country Pro-market Institutions.”
46th European International Business Academy conference, Vienna, Austria (2021).
- Symeou, P.C. and Kassinis, G. “Partnering with MNEs in the extractives industries: How the corporate social performance of MNEs affects the legitimacy of the host state partner.”
PhD Students
Other Activities & Services
Currently, he serves on the editorial board of Global Strategy Journal. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, and Journal of Business Ethics. He has been involved in organizing conferences and has been invited to give talks and seminars in Cyprus and abroad. He has taught courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels, including "Management and Development of Startups and SMEs" (Master’s level), "Marketing Strategy" (Undergraduate and Master’s levels), "Management of Innovation and Information" (Master’s level), and "Research Methods" (PhD level).
